About this data

Source: ONS, Births in England and Wales: 2025; NRS, Births time series and Vital Events 2025; NISRA, Registrar General Annual Report 2024 and monthly births

• Births have been registered in England and Wales since 1837, in Scotland since 1855, and in Ireland since 1864. The UK total is shown from 1887, the first year Northern Ireland's figures are available for.
• The UK figures are for the UK's current area, so they don't include births in what is now the Republic of Ireland.
• Northern Ireland's 2025 figure is provisional.

This chart appears in Births and fertility rates.